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In addition, many places in the United States were forced to implement curfews, and people's panic affected work. The U.S. economy and industrial production were also greatly affected. However, it was actually possible for Roosevelt to lose his temper and cry.
chance
Although he is likely to obtain asylum from the embassy and consulates of his motherland after revealing his identity, the prince knows that what he has done this time is too much. Therefore, he would rather die in the United States as a Japanese than risk bringing harm to his motherland.
Despite this, out of the instinct of survival, Wang Zicai relied on his cunning and ferocity to successfully escape again and again when being pursued and intercepted by the U.S. military and police, during which he killed and injured many U.S. military and police officers.
Hundreds of people
Unknowingly, the prince had arrived in New Mexico from the western United States. The reason why he came here was because he once saw Hu Weidong marking two red dots on a map of the United States, one of which was in New Mexico.
Among the mountains in the mountains, I was very curious at the time. Now that my life is not long, I just came here to solve the mystery in my heart. Compared with the red dot in Tennessee marked as "Oak Ridge", this one was marked as Los Angeles by Hu Weidong.
Alamos is probably much closer.
Before he even got close to this small town, which was not marked on ordinary American maps, the prince discovered that the place was heavily guarded, but this did not faze him. Long before he was separated from his subordinates, he used wigs and other props to pretend to be white.
He has such a human appearance that as long as others don't get too close, it will be difficult to spot the problem. And the conspicuous rifle has been discarded by him, leaving only two pistols and four grenades.
Self-defense, these greatly facilitated Wang Zicai's infiltration. More importantly, perhaps to keep secrets, or to prevent the "residents" of the town from being too psychologically stressed and affecting their work. Although the Americans were strictly vigilant, they took
The "loose outside and tight inside" approach is fine for dealing with ordinary invading enemies. But it can't stop a top-notch agent like Wang Zicai from infiltrating.
Since he was familiar with this temperament and style when he was around Hu Weidong, the prince sneaked in and made a brief observation. He found that a full fraction of the residents in the city were scientists. He couldn't help but become more curious, "U.S.
The government has gathered so many scientists, what major issues are they studying?"
In order to accumulate data for the calculation of critical mass, a very dangerous experiment was being carried out in a building in the small town of Los Alamos - the plutonium-239 (Note 1) test conducted by Canadian nuclear scientist Dr. Sloda.
Combining experiment. This experiment is very simple to put it bluntly. It is to combine two pieces of high-purity (weapons grade or above) plutonium-239 on the slide rail of the experimental table to see if a nuclear reaction occurs (the surface is coated with a thin layer of fluorescence
powder, radiate
When the radiation is enhanced to a certain extent, it will be stimulated to emit blue light.). If no nuclear reaction occurs, it means that the critical mass is greater than the sum of the masses of the two pieces of plutonium-239, and the two pieces of plutonium-239 selected for the next experiment will be larger than this time; and
If it occurs, it means that the critical mass is less than the sum of the masses of two pieces of plutonium-239. If compared with the previous reaction, the error between the measured value and the accurate critical mass can be gradually reduced, providing guidance for the United States to manufacture atoms.
Of course, for the safety of himself and the entire city, once a nuclear reaction occurs, Dr. Sloda must use a screwdriver to separate the two pieces of plutonium-239 that are joined together as quickly as possible. Since the experiment is carried out step by step, the combination is
Even if plutonium-239 can reach the critical mass, it will not exceed too much, and it will not fit so tightly that it will actually explode.
The time is so close, so the speed of the nuclear reaction will not be too fast, and it will take at least a few seconds before it enters the stage of legal control. As long as you focus enough, you can completely separate the two pieces of plutonium-239 in time and stop the nuclear reaction, not to mention that there is him next to you.
Several of his assistants, even if Dr. Sloda's response is half a beat slow, his several assistants should be able to respond in time.[
The reason why the U.S. government agreed to conduct this seemingly extremely dangerous experiment was, on the one hand, to rush for time and hope to create atoms as soon as possible, and on the other hand, it was full of confidence in the clock's "multiple insurance" mechanism. But Americans are absolutely
What I didn't expect was that an enemy would come to this "Los Alamos National Laboratory" that even most Americans didn't know about.
It must be admitted that the Americans have done a pretty good job in security. Even Wang Zicai was quickly exposed after successfully sneaking into the city, and was chased everywhere by swarming American military police. But the Americans had deep thoughts
He was afraid to use automatic weapons and heavy weapons. He failed to kill the prince on the spot. Instead, he fled into Dr. Sloda's laboratory in desperation. Since this place was a security guard
It is one of the most secretive laboratories. The American military police who pursued it had no idea what it did, so they made a wrong decision. They were worried about accidentally injuring the scientists in the laboratory, and they were even more afraid of being killed by that animal again.
The damn "rat" escaped instead of rushing in immediately, but chose to surround the laboratory while constantly shouting, demanding that the prince come out and surrender.
Note 1: The story passed down says that he was testing uranium 235, but the critical mass of uranium 235 is very large (more than three times that of plutonium 239), and it is difficult to use a screwdriver to move it flexibly even on the sliding table.
Later I studied English
Ji conducted an investigation and found that the test in the serious accident that forced him to "break the atom" was indeed plutonium-239. Although the related tests of uranium-235 were also conducted by Dr. Sloda, the experimental methods were different.
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In addition, the accident in history actually occurred after World War II, not before World War II as mentioned in the story. Dr. Sloda, who believed that after World War II, there was no need to continue researching this horrific weapon, repeatedly proposed to return to Canada.
As his university teacher, it is not easy to find another scientist who is willing to do this dangerous job. Therefore, the US government resolutely refused and even restricted his personal freedom. Dr. Sloda became very emotional because of this, precisely because of his absent-mindedness.
led to the accident
ps: There is another reason why it is written as plutonium-239 here. No matter how powerful the United States is, it is impossible to produce enough uranium-235 to make one atom in 1943. But for plutonium-239, it is possible as long as there are enough reactors.
In the second half of 1943, when the incident occurred, the United States, which had invested more in the "Manhattan Project" than in history, could have done it.